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Private school 'helped nervous child'
Posted on 22nd October 2007
A commentator has explained the reasons he chose to send one child to a private school and one to a state, saying his "more complex" son is happier and more confident within the independent sector.
Writer Alex Wade explained to the Sunday Times that one son was doing well at his high-performing state school, however, his younger brother was not.
Despite one child blossoming within the state sector, the other became edgy, unhappy and began to use bad language.
"It wasn't that Elliot's primary school was failing him - far from it - but more that we might be by leaving him there," he mused in an article for the newspaper.
The headmaster of the fee-paying school they chose had worked as the head of a state comprehensive and told them his previous school had taught classes of 32, compared to ten at his current school.
Last week the Conservatives attacked the government for failing children at state schools after it emerged 31 per cent of A-level candidates at independent schools received three or more A grades, compared to 7.4 per cent of pupils from comprehensives.
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